Something within: religion in African-American political activism
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1. Verfasser: Harris, Fredrick C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index
When a little becomes much: religious resources in action -- Prophetic fragments: macro and micro foundations of religious resources -- Religion reconsidered: Black protest and electoral activism in an age of transformation -- Blessed assurance: religion, personal empowerment, and African-American political activism -- Rock in a weary land: religious institutions and African-American political activism -- Ties that bind: linking religion and intermediary resources to political action -- The last shall be first: religion, oppositional culture, and African-American political mobilization -- In my father's house: religion and gender in African-American political life
One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history, contextual analysis, and survey research, this book illustrates the participatory effects of Afro-Christianity by examining its institutional, psychological, and cultural influences. Going beyond the opiate-inspiration debate that has dominated research on the subject, Author Fredrick C. Harris advances a new theory of religion as a
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ISBN:0195120337
142373825X
1602562849
9780195120332
9781423738251
9781602562844

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